Ana Hunter, who was vice president of foundry at Samsung Semiconductor, has left Samsung and joined GlobalFoundries. Travis Bullard, a GlobalFoundries spokesman, said she will combine responsibilities in strategy, sales, and marketing. Ana was the face of Samsung's foundry thrust for the past seven years.

Well, I don't know why Mike Noonen resigned his position, but I am going to respect his decision and his comments. One thing for sure that caught my eyes about his comments is that he said: "cost-effectiveness back to Moore's Law." A few months ago we were talking about Moore's Law within another article and some people said it was dead and that Charles you don't know what you are talking aobut. Well, if Moore's Law is dead, it sure continue to keep on living. Thanks for the comment Mke Noonen.

Dear Junko, when GF acquired Chartered it also acquired two of the industry best Sales and Marketing executives. Instead of recognizing that, GF and ATIC brought a parade of, looking at their record, somewhat questionable resources.

As Steve Jobs said -- tolerate only "A" players... Hopefully GF is on a strong rebound -- its technology and operational teams are certainly world-class.

BTW, Mike Rekuc promptly left and now runs the Global Sales and Marketing as one of SMIC's top executives. The last time I checked -- SMIC had eight or more quarters of growth and profitability....

@sranje, very interesting. Thanks for sharing the story about Mr. Meyer. I haven't had an opportunity to meet with him and I did not know that he, too, recently left GloFo...it feels like there is more to the story.

I know little about Mike Noonen and his capabilities. However, another outstanding Marketing executive left GF about 1-2 months earlier -- Kevin Meyer.

For several years I was astonished watching a promenade of GF's marketing and sales executives -- puzzled by their selection -- while there was a proven and among industry's very best resources already in the company. Very strange and disappointing since the industry needs a successful GF

In conjunction with unveiling of EE Times’ Silicon 60 list, journalist & Silicon 60 researcher Peter Clarke hosts a conversation on startups in the electronics industry. One of Silicon Valley's great contributions to the world has been the demonstration of how the application of entrepreneurship and venture capital to electronics and semiconductor hardware can create wealth with developments in semiconductors, displays, design automation, MEMS and across the breadth of hardware developments. But in recent years concerns have been raised that traditional venture capital has turned its back on hardware-related startups in favor of software and Internet applications and services. Panelists from incubators join Peter Clarke in debate.